sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection,
confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture†, jam,
julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop,
bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson,
glucose; maple sirup†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai†, sorghum,
taffy.
nectar; hydromel†, mead, meade†, metheglin†, honeysuckle, liqueur,
sweet wine, aperitif.
[sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.
[sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart,
puff, pudding (food) 298.
dulcification†, dulcoration†.
sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar,
dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame,
Sweet'N Low.
V. be sweet &c adj.. render sweet &c adj.; sweeten; edulcorate†;
dulcorate†, dulcify†; candy; mull.
Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous†; dulcet, candied, honied†,
luscious, lush, nectarious†, melliferous†; sweetened &c v.. sweet as a
nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey.
sickly sweet.
Phr. eau sucrée [Fr.]; sweets to the sweet [Hamlet].